1 August 2016 – Author: Rob Kidd – NZ Herald A solo mother of two with no prior convictions was running a multi-million-dollar drug ring from a waterfront Auckland apartment. Ye Cheng, 32, was the Kiwi manager of a syndicate which brought more than $5 million of precursors for the manufacture of methamphetamine over from […]
12 July 2016 – Author: Kristin Edge – Source: NZ Herald Suspicious behaviour at a coastal holiday home has led to the discovery of a methamphetamine lab in Northland. Emergency services were called to the house in Dolphin Place, on the Tutukaka Coast, about 2pm on Sunday. A neighbour said they arrived home to a police […]
21 July 2016 – Source: NZ Herald A man is in a serious condition in Tauranga Hospital following a raid on a suspected methamphetamine lab. Police this morning located a suspected clan lab on Walker Road East, between Tauranga and Katikati. Police said it was believed the address had been used for the manufacture of […]
28 July 2016 – Author: Imran Ali – Source: NZ Herald A Northlander arrested during a major drug bust told a jury he had no knowledge methamphetamine was being manufactured at a rural property despite driving to and from the house with the supervisor of the illegal operation. Kiata Sonny Pene denied one charge of […]
28 May 2016 – Author: Kathleen Noonan – Source: The Courier Mail WHAT does meth in the suburbs look like? Right now, I can tell you what it sounds like. Take a steer, teach it to swear profusely and savagely, tie it up, then torture it and listen. Like that. What does meth look like? […]
30 March 2016 – Author: Rob Kidd – Source: NZ Herald It’s not easy funding a wedding. Most people scrimp, save or borrow; but Scott Ian McArthur decided to raise the cash by cooking meth. The 42-year-old avoided a prison term by the narrowest of margins in Auckland District Court last week when he was […]
16 June 2013 – Source: news.com.au FORMER “meth labs” are being sold and rented to families across New South Wales, with no legal requirement for real estate agents to disclose the property was once used to produce illegal drugs. Unlike laws which require agents to disclose any “material facts” relating to a suspicious death at […]
2nd April 2016 – Author: Vanessa Brown – Source: news.com.au “Ice from all angles: Australian Drug Foundation release videos from ex-user, a parent and a doctors point of view.” IT’S the addiction that’s gripping parts of the country like never seen before. It’s been around for some time, but the ice epidemic has reached levels […]
12 September 2015 – Author: John McCrone – Source: stuff.co.nz Could a tenth of all New Zealand motel rooms now be toxic from P smoking? Is every property investor at risk of huge methamphetamine clean-up bills? JOHN McCRONE reports on the growing meth decontamination industry. Marketing an ex-meth house has its problems. How do […]
13 June 2015 – Author: Talia Shadwell – Source: stuff.co.nz Holiday-makers from hell are trawling popular accommodation booking websites to find sites to house their mobile P-labs – coating walls and carpets in noxious chemicals that can cost up to $20,000-$50,000 range to strip and decontaminate. Kiwis baches are being contaminated by strangers’ makeshift methamphetamine […]
15 May 2015 – Authors: Lorna Knowles and Rebecca Armitage – Source: ABC News The number of amphetamine arrests across Australia has almost doubled in the past five years, as crime authorities warn they have never seen any substance as destructive as crystal methylamphetamine, or ice. The Australian Crime Commission (ACC) said police made a record […]
25 January 2015 – Authors: Lorna Knowles and Alison McClymont – Source: ABC News Australia is in the grip of an ice epidemic and hundreds of clandestine drug labs are springing up around the country each year, in suburban homes, motels and even in car boots and trucks. Authorities warn the labs are leaving a […]
22 December 2014 – Author: Alyse Edwards – Source: ABC News Queensland police are campaigning for national laws to protect residents from the toxic side effects of clandestine drug laboratories. The state is Australia’s methamphetamine production capital, according to police, with more than 600 undercover drug operations uncovered in homes, rental properties and businesses over the […]
4 June 2014 – Author: Stephen Smith – Source: sourceable.net All around the world, a growing phenomenon of using private and often rented accommodation as laboratories for producing methamphetamine is causing enormous headaches for property owners and neighbours and spawning a new wave in construction related litigation. Methamphetamine, also known as crystal meth, P or […]
1 May 2014 – Author: Terry Goldsworthy – Source: The Conversation The 2012-13 Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Illicit Drug Data Report, released earlier this week, provides mounting evidence that crystal meth is becoming a large-scale problem for law enforcement and health authorities in Australia. Methamphetamine hydrochloride, better known as crystal meth or ice, first became […]